"Beginning deep psychological or shadow work is not without its perils. The Facing Demons tarot spread series offers you access to clear messages that will light your way through the labyrinth of the unconscious."
"MOONWORK is a practice of making home in self, others, and the present moment, as perfect-for-now experiences that include past & future." Hannah Harris-Sutro introduces her new online class.
Alexis shares a full-body tarot spread: "There is something powerful and vulnerable lying down and having cards placed on you while one or many folks begin to speak about what they see about you and your story via the cards."
If we pay attention we realize we’ve been grieving a lot longer than we’ve been awake. The grieving never stops, never ceases, only its form and expression changes. Loss is change. Grief is change. God is change.
It's what late summer light is for, I believe. Lammas. Mugwort cigarettes. And meadowsweet incense, rose tea, taking time to knead bread, to make a fire... to sit in whatever silence we can find and claim for ourselves, and let it all settle in.
If it’s all just spiritual work and of the soul, why bring our bodies into it? Because all of us have bodies. Because we filter the wisdom received from tarot through our bodies and have lived or will live the stories cast on the reading table.
To cut off abusers is to be the Queen of Swords. To take care of ourselves by cutting off communication, and not necessarily dramatically. Sometimes there is nothing more to be said, and the most powerful statement is said with silence.
The Numinous Tarot places hope at the heart of the revolution. "We may have to build this place ourselves, but we are worth the effort, the space, and the care of doing so." - Noel Heimpel
Befriending cards is a great exercise to figure out where you’re at in your life and to begin naming what you want more of, as well as what needs releasing.
It's productivity season and our healing projects can be just as alluring as any other. This month we utilize tarot to guard and manage our sacred energy, even from ourselves.
Are you romanticizing the not-home? What stops you from retreating at-home, or at least in your city or neighbourhood? What might it mean to retreat in daily life?
Sometimes what we need to mourn – really truly – is not an ancestor who is deceased, not a fleshy body made bone, but a version or vision of ourselves, a fantasy we held about ourselves or our future.